You break it to him over his favorite meal with a pot of his favorite flowers in the room (because he is a nature nut, right?), and hope he doesn't go berserk, and raze the entire building to the ground (that Land's Wrath would hurt!).
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Gen VII: Pokémon Sun and Moon (New info Post #5834)
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I doubt that Pikachu will get a Mega. Though on the flip side, that likely means Raichu won't, though who knows. Maybe they finally give Raichu some love (and maybe an appearance in the anime we it isn't presented as a jerk).
Sorry. The cuteness was too much and I didn't realize that there were more pages on the thread. If only that was a joke.
I know, ikr?! And the idea of a Koalanut Pokémon seemed like one of those things the concept artists would come up with. But given that most of the new Pokémon are going to be derived from what lives in southern France or Great Britain (hopefully, they'll confirm that soon), I guess that maybe a Koala isn't right yet. But once they get to doing something for Australia...
Think if everyone keeps complaining that Nintendo's abusing Pikachu's older (and arguably better mature) brother, they'll give in, and green light Game Freak to give him a Mega? I wouldn't be surprised if, like a certain FlyDragonFly, they already have a design or two stored away...
Eh, I have a tendency to go with the blue color (or the closest thing to it), so probablyin the battle between the Sun and the Moon which side will you pick?
Of course, the Box Legendary alone can determine everything. I went with the reddish Y for once, and don't regret catching my Ypsilon (though thank Arceus for that Timid 6IV Xerneas! Wow, that Geomancy packs a wallop!). If the Sun Legendary looks kickass, then Sun it is!
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So Gaijin Goombah released a video on the 26th giving his theory on what Sun & Moon is going to be about and I feel it might be worth some discussion. Here's the video (it's only 7 minutes long)
So to summarize his main points:
1. Since past mascot Legendaries all have basis in mythology, he believes the same for S&M. (Reasonable enough, I'd say almost obvious)
2. He believes the mascot Legendaries would be the Shinto deities Amaterasu the sun goddess and Tsukuyomi the moon god. (A plausible theory, sun and moon gods would be the obvious direction to go for Legendary mascots. Of course others (if not most) polytheistic cultures also have a sun and moon god. Not only that, with Pokemon having moved out of Japan it would be odd for them to go back, or would it?)
3. With Unova based on New York and Kalos based on France, Pokemon hasn't had a new region based on Japan for a few years now (minus the remake of Hoenn and re-release of Gen I). However since then a new challenger has arisen in the mon genre: Yo-Kai Watch!. Anyone who knows about Yo-Kai Watch! knows it has taken over Japan and does serve as the closest competitor to Pokemon. It could be possible that GF may want to go back to their roots to show their homeland fans they haven't forgotten about them and try to set a foothold back in the Asian markets (which could also be why they have translated the games into Chinese).
So, what do you think? Everything Gaijin Goombah says makes sense, and he is experienced in Japanese culture.
Personally, I would think this would be a step back for GameFreak. First off I don't think Yo-Kai Watch's popularity has anything to do with the Pokemon franchise basing regions on non-Japanese places, especially since Yo-Kai Watch is going to do the same thing with their third game. I can understand it's disappointing to know your franchise isn't as popular in its homeland as it once was, but if they focus on trying to restore Pokemon's popularity in Japan they could risk losing some of the international community. Not because it'll be another region based on Japan, I'm fine with that as long as they make it interesting, but if they want to really attract back the Japanese audience from Yo-Kai Watch! they'd have to do more to make it appealing to Japanese audiences. And remember, Yo-Kai Watch! may be popular in Japan but it's not doing so hot anywhere else because its so rooted into Japanese culture that anyone not part of it has a lot of the meaning and symbolism lost on them. Now Pokemon's popularity will carry it on through if they do that, though it will give off a message to the international community that, no matter how big of a fanbase they have outside of Japan, the Japanese fanbase comes first and they'll do anything to get that audience back over the international audience.
I say GF should just keep pushing on with basing regions off location outside of Japan (at least unless they want to go back to Japan because they feel they could do something unique there, not just because there's a new mon series). It would give the message they're focusing on a global scale, no favoritism.
So to summarize his main points:
1. Since past mascot Legendaries all have basis in mythology, he believes the same for S&M. (Reasonable enough, I'd say almost obvious)
2. He believes the mascot Legendaries would be the Shinto deities Amaterasu the sun goddess and Tsukuyomi the moon god. (A plausible theory, sun and moon gods would be the obvious direction to go for Legendary mascots. Of course others (if not most) polytheistic cultures also have a sun and moon god. Not only that, with Pokemon having moved out of Japan it would be odd for them to go back, or would it?)
3. With Unova based on New York and Kalos based on France, Pokemon hasn't had a new region based on Japan for a few years now (minus the remake of Hoenn and re-release of Gen I). However since then a new challenger has arisen in the mon genre: Yo-Kai Watch!. Anyone who knows about Yo-Kai Watch! knows it has taken over Japan and does serve as the closest competitor to Pokemon. It could be possible that GF may want to go back to their roots to show their homeland fans they haven't forgotten about them and try to set a foothold back in the Asian markets (which could also be why they have translated the games into Chinese).
So, what do you think? Everything Gaijin Goombah says makes sense, and he is experienced in Japanese culture.
Personally, I would think this would be a step back for GameFreak. First off I don't think Yo-Kai Watch's popularity has anything to do with the Pokemon franchise basing regions on non-Japanese places, especially since Yo-Kai Watch is going to do the same thing with their third game. I can understand it's disappointing to know your franchise isn't as popular in its homeland as it once was, but if they focus on trying to restore Pokemon's popularity in Japan they could risk losing some of the international community. Not because it'll be another region based on Japan, I'm fine with that as long as they make it interesting, but if they want to really attract back the Japanese audience from Yo-Kai Watch! they'd have to do more to make it appealing to Japanese audiences. And remember, Yo-Kai Watch! may be popular in Japan but it's not doing so hot anywhere else because its so rooted into Japanese culture that anyone not part of it has a lot of the meaning and symbolism lost on them. Now Pokemon's popularity will carry it on through if they do that, though it will give off a message to the international community that, no matter how big of a fanbase they have outside of Japan, the Japanese fanbase comes first and they'll do anything to get that audience back over the international audience.
I say GF should just keep pushing on with basing regions off location outside of Japan (at least unless they want to go back to Japan because they feel they could do something unique there, not just because there's a new mon series). It would give the message they're focusing on a global scale, no favoritism.
Regarding the above: Honestly I don't really care either way since basing new regions off of wherever does not really mean anything except acknowledging that said country's various national quirks are recognized worldwide and thus suitable for an international release (except Japan for obvious reasons). You also have to consider how much research goes into basing a region off a foreign country as opposed to areas and places the designers are already familiar with. Less money/time spent on that shit means more time/money spent on other shit like the actual content of the game. Still though, I don't care either way as long as they push out a decent game.
Speaking of things I really hope they do in S&M content wise is improve their environments.
I think the environment design in XY sucked and ORAS didn't do much to improve on it. There were basically 0 impressive setpieces aside from the admittedly pretty awesome reflective bodies of water, with everything either looking blocky as shit due to their obvious use of tiles (despite showing in various areas that they are clearly capable of rounded areas, etc) or just not impressive because of no effort being put into the lighting (aside from aforementioned ponds and lakes and shit). The soft-shaded almost-pastel tones of the 3D models, as well as GAME FREAK's habit of using fuzzy outlines on everything, do not help this lack of visual snazz since they remove almost any hope of achieving dramatic lighting on said models. So despite it being good at looking cute (like in Pokemon-Amie), the environment never looked cool where it counted (The Cave of Origin was dumb and the Primal's models in the cave looked dumb [to me anyway]). So hopefully they step up their game with their lighting engine (or is this a texture issue? not sure) and their implementation of setpieces. Something closer to the vein of the old XD games, for example, where the colors are more vivid and 'harsher,' in a way, would be great.
e: Things ORAS did improve on: aforementioned sparklin water areas, which were cool as fuck + better slow pans/zooms on areas with movement relative to said area to show scale (like the cave of the legendary bird, surfin in the ocean, etc)
e2: also not judging but gaijin goombah is such a cringey name jesus
Speaking of things I really hope they do in S&M content wise is improve their environments.
I think the environment design in XY sucked and ORAS didn't do much to improve on it. There were basically 0 impressive setpieces aside from the admittedly pretty awesome reflective bodies of water, with everything either looking blocky as shit due to their obvious use of tiles (despite showing in various areas that they are clearly capable of rounded areas, etc) or just not impressive because of no effort being put into the lighting (aside from aforementioned ponds and lakes and shit). The soft-shaded almost-pastel tones of the 3D models, as well as GAME FREAK's habit of using fuzzy outlines on everything, do not help this lack of visual snazz since they remove almost any hope of achieving dramatic lighting on said models. So despite it being good at looking cute (like in Pokemon-Amie), the environment never looked cool where it counted (The Cave of Origin was dumb and the Primal's models in the cave looked dumb [to me anyway]). So hopefully they step up their game with their lighting engine (or is this a texture issue? not sure) and their implementation of setpieces. Something closer to the vein of the old XD games, for example, where the colors are more vivid and 'harsher,' in a way, would be great.
e: Things ORAS did improve on: aforementioned sparklin water areas, which were cool as fuck + better slow pans/zooms on areas with movement relative to said area to show scale (like the cave of the legendary bird, surfin in the ocean, etc)
e2: also not judging but gaijin goombah is such a cringey name jesus
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And, sometime in the 24th Century, Pokémon will be a very popular series of Holo Suites. Oh, that is going to put the metagame on it's head! Oh, if only it were popular enough so that was the holoprogram that Naomi Wildman liked (that was after Paramount got Nintendo's permission), and not that strange blue fella!
I've always wondered why Pokémon wasn't distributed in China, given the amount of potential customers. I've always figured it was political (China might be capitalist, but the ruling party isn't the best exactly when it comes to tolerating free thought).
Sounds like maybe the cry for a new Pokémon (does he do cries?). It also reminds me of the sounds of that horrible, horrible Galactic Lab (BUUURRN IT TO THE GROUND!!!). That, or someone's airspeeder needs to have their repulsorlift looked at.
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Could be a new cry, could be some kind of special effect sound for a new move. Sounds like some kind of techno-monstrosity, either way. Mega Genesect (jk)?
I think it's definitely a new cry. It's pretty long though, it might be an extended cry for a cutscene of some sort.
It could still mean we might get an actual trailer this time, or at least some general info about release dates, ect.
Tomorrow ? I don't expect anything honestly
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All I know is that they will release a special movie trailer tomorrow at 6:45 am.
EDIt: The Nintendo Direct is real!!
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If they just have to make another Fire/Fighting type, I just hope that they at least have the boldness to make it Specially oriented, with Aura Sphere (DO NOT WANT FOCUS
Flygon and Exploud are crying in a corner, wondering my Game Freak doesn't love them. And Shiftry. And Ludicolo. And Walrein. And Machamp. And Golem. Need I continue? Milotic on the other hand can go fuck off!
Or Orange Islands 2.0?
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They said they might save the idea of a Mega Flygon for next gen if they come up with a good idea for it. So...
Why cancel giving Flygon one, when they can just postpone it until they think of something? Flygon clearly deserves one.
I predict that even if Flygon got a mega his fanbase would still somehow complain about it. "Wow, they couldn't give him Sand stream? Bullshit Gamefreak."
See that's the thing I really don't think it does. It has hardcore fans but people overrate the popularity of the thing.
On the not-randomly-speculating-baselessly-on-what-megas-we-might-get-if-any-at-all side of things...
Actually no I've got nothing. Where did this conversation come from?
Actually no I've got nothing. Where did this conversation come from?
Where's that poster from?
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Pokemon movie official Twitter.
I wish Gamefreak/Masuda's travel exploits were easier to track, that might give us clues in to the type of setting they've developed.
He traveled to New York shortly after the release of Diamond and Pearl.
Travled to Paris after the release of XY.
And traveled to Spain after that…
http://www.gamefreak.co.jp/blog/dir_english/
He traveled to New York shortly after the release of Diamond and Pearl.
Travled to Paris after the release of XY.
And traveled to Spain after that…
http://www.gamefreak.co.jp/blog/dir_english/
Thought this was interesting and quite possibly Masuda did as well.
"Like other European Celtic tribes, those of Spain revered the sun and the moon, and attached great significance to forests, rivers, wells, and mountains."Link.
The idea that I'm trying to connect is that maybe there is a connection between AZ and the Celtic tribes in our world. Geohenge / Stonehenge anyone? The historical significance of ancient wars?
Remember, AZ's Floette still has yet to be announced but still seems to hold some relevance to the untold story.
The significance of the inclusion of fairies is poignant as well. Celtic tribes believed in fairy people, fairy is the typing of AZ's closest pokemon.
"Like other European Celtic tribes, those of Spain revered the sun and the moon, and attached great significance to forests, rivers, wells, and mountains."Link.
The idea that I'm trying to connect is that maybe there is a connection between AZ and the Celtic tribes in our world. Geohenge / Stonehenge anyone? The historical significance of ancient wars?
Remember, AZ's Floette still has yet to be announced but still seems to hold some relevance to the untold story.
The significance of the inclusion of fairies is poignant as well. Celtic tribes believed in fairy people, fairy is the typing of AZ's closest pokemon.
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